The word Protestant is derived from the Latin protestatio meaning declaration which refers to the letter of protestation by Lutheran princes ... San Francisco: Harper ...

http://www.thefullwiki.org/Church_history

Scientology Protest This Sunday

Well, this should be exciting, hateful. This Sunday at 11 a.m. at 701 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, there will be a protest over that religious sect those zany Hollywood types know and love so well. You know, the one where you can't take Prozac ...

In recognition of the anniversary of “Message to Scientology,” then, consider this trip down e-history lane a crash course on what made Anonymous the collective ... Despite being local to San Francisco, August’s Operation BART was significant for ...

Motherboard •
3 years ago

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-video-that-made-anonymous

Only in San Francisco

The American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in May looks to be a lot more interesting thanks to some only-in-San Francisco-style demonstrations planned. First, the Church of Scientology ... Anonymous got wind of the protest, and as part of …

In 2008, Anonymous went offline, organizing demonstrations at Scientology centers around the world. But several supporters in Anonymous chat rooms - the forum where its plans are hatched and organized - celebrated the Aug. 15 BART protest in San …

Gorman moved the man whose rear was in question, president of the San Francisco ... ever oppose Scientology since mobilizing on Web message boards earlier this year. Their numbers have galvanized ex-Scientologists formerly too scared to protest their ...

By the time he moved to Westport, in 1998, he planned to return to Scientology once his children were grown and he could better afford it. It wasn’t until he heard of a protest in 2008 that he looked into Scientology online and had a “penny-dropping ...

San Francisco Sentinel •
6 years ago

http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=114431

Selling Scientology

By 1982, Hawkins says he had already shot his fair share of attention-grabbing ads for the religion—whether they involved complex fly-by shots filmed from airplanes or interviewing celebrity Scientologists like former San Francisco 49ers quarterback John ...

Church of Scientology members said they would demonstrate outside the State Building in San Francisco until the California Supreme Court rules on whether a minister's notes taken in a counseling session should be entered as evidence in the Los Angeles ...

"There's real brainwashing going on -- people will defend [Scientology with their lives," said Bill Offerman, a former member of the church. Offerman said he joined the church in 1969 in San Francisco ... cars after a similar protest in February ...

Daniel Debolt •
Mountain View Voice •
9 years ago

http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=488

Psychiatry vs Scientology vs Anonymous

But things got a little more interesting when a press release from the protest group Anonymous landed in my ... president of the Church of Scientology of San Francisco. He told me that "the problem with psychiatry is that it is based on a lie that mental ...